Romans 3:6

World English Bible (2000)

May it never be! For then how will God judge the world?

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  • Gen 18:25 : 25 Be it far from you to do things like that, to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be like the wicked. May that be far from you. Shouldn't the Judge of all the earth do right?"
  • Job 8:3 : 3 Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert righteousness?
  • Job 34:17-19 : 17 Shall even one who hates justice govern? Will you condemn him who is righteous and mighty?-- 18 Who says to a king, 'Vile!' or to nobles, 'Wicked!'? 19 Who doesn't respect the persons of princes, nor respects the rich more than the poor; for they all are the work of his hands.
  • Ps 9:8 : 8 He will judge the world in righteousness. He will administer judgment to the peoples in uprightness.
  • Ps 11:5-7 : 5 Yahweh examines the righteous, but the wicked and him who loves violence his soul hates. 6 On the wicked he will rain blazing coals; fire, sulfur, and scorching wind shall be the portion of their cup. 7 For Yahweh is righteous. He loves righteousness. The upright shall see his face. For the Chief Musician; upon an eight-stringed lyre. A Psalm of David.
  • Ps 50:6 : 6 The heavens shall declare his righteousness, for God himself is judge. Selah.
  • Ps 96:13 : 13 before Yahweh; for he comes, for he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world with righteousness, the peoples with his truth.
  • Ps 98:9 : 9 Let them sing before Yahweh, for he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world with righteousness, and the peoples with equity.
  • Acts 17:31 : 31 because he has appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness by the man whom he has ordained; of which he has given assurance to all men, in that he has raised him from the dead."
  • Rom 2:16 : 16 in the day when God will judge the secrets of men, according to my Good News, by Jesus Christ.

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  • 14What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? May it never be!

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    3For what if some were without faith? Will their lack of faith nullify the faithfulness of God?

    4May it never be! Yes, let God be found true, but every man a liar. As it is written, "That you might be justified in your words, and might prevail when you come into judgment."

    5But if our unrighteousness commends the righteousness of God, what will we say? Is God unrighteous who inflicts wrath? I speak like men do.

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    7For if the truth of God through my lie abounded to his glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner?

    8Why not (as we are slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say), "Let us do evil, that good may come?" Those who say so are justly condemned.

    9What then? Are we better than they? No, in no way. For we previously warned both Jews and Greeks, that they are all under sin.

    10As it is written, "There is no one righteous; no, not one.

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    1What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?

    2May it never be! We who died to sin, how could we live in it any longer?

  • 15What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace? May it never be!

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    1Therefore you are without excuse, O man, whoever you are who judge. For in that which you judge another, you condemn yourself. For you who judge practice the same things.

    2We know that the judgment of God is according to truth against those who practice such things.

    3Do you think this, O man who judges those who practice such things, and do the same, that you will escape the judgment of God?

    4Or do you despise the riches of his goodness, forbearance, and patience, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?

  • 17But if, while we sought to be justified in Christ, we ourselves also were found sinners, is Christ a servant of sin? Certainly not!

  • 3Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert righteousness?

  • 25Be it far from you to do things like that, to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be like the wicked. May that be far from you. Shouldn't the Judge of all the earth do right?"

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    17For the time has come for judgment to begin with the household of God. If it begins first with us, what will happen to those who don't obey the Good News of God?

    18"If it is hard for the righteous to be saved, what will happen to the ungodly and the sinner?"

  • 18"There is no fear of God before their eyes."

  • 21Is the law then against the promises of God? Certainly not! For if there had been a law given which could make alive, most certainly righteousness would have been of the law.

  • 14But far be it from me to boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

  • 12Yes surely, God will not do wickedly, neither will the Almighty pervert justice.

  • 18For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness,

  • 23For he doesn't need to consider a man further, that he should go before God in judgment.

  • 17For God didn't send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through him.

  • 3If you, Yah, kept a record of sins, Lord, who could stand?

  • 10But you, why do you judge your brother? Or you again, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.

  • 7What shall we say then? Is the law sin? May it never be! However, I wouldn't have known sin, except through the law. For I wouldn't have known coveting, unless the law had said, "You shall not covet."

  • 1"Don't judge, so that you won't be judged.

  • 17'Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his Maker?

  • 20Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight. For through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

  • 13Did then that which is good become death to me? May it never be! But sin, that it might be shown to be sin, by working death to me through that which is good; that through the commandment sin might become exceeding sinful.

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    31For if we discerned ourselves, we wouldn't be judged.

    32But when we are judged, we are punished by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.

  • 28this also would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges; for I should have denied the God who is above.

  • 7Will you speak unrighteously for God, and talk deceitfully for him?

  • 8Will you even annul my judgment? Will you condemn me, that you may be justified?

  • 33Who could bring a charge against God's chosen ones? It is God who justifies.

  • 13But those who are outside, God judges. "Put away the wicked man from among yourselves."

  • 1Dare any of you, having a matter against his neighbor, go to law before the unrighteous, and not before the saints?

  • 11For there is no partiality with God.

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    3But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you, or by man's judgment. Yes, I don't judge my own self.

    4For I know nothing against myself. Yet I am not justified by this, but he who judges me is the Lord.

  • 36To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord doesn't approve.

  • 5Far be it from me that I should justify you. Until I die I will not put away my integrity from me.

  • 31What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

  • 13Therefore let's not judge one another any more, but judge this rather, that no man put a stumbling block in his brother's way, or an occasion for falling.

  • 3Do you open your eyes on such a one, and bring me into judgment with you?